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Re: A Guy Who Exists Purely to Troll the Humane Society Was Just Hired by Donald Trump

coturnix — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:15:20 -0000

People are confused: HSUS is not the same organization as Humane Society. The latter is good, the former is an animal rights scam using the name similarity (done on purpose) to swindle people into donating money.

Re: A Guy Who Exists Purely to Troll the Humane Society Was Just Hired by Donald Trump

coturnix — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:45:52 -0000

HSUS is not Humane Society: http://scienceblogs.com/erv...

Re: Morgan Chicks 2.0 - Ashley Bennett Design

coturnix — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:25:39 -0000

Chicken lay eggs in response to photoperiod. They should all start laying a lot of eggs once daylength exceeds 12 hours of light per day or more. You can accelerate the onset of laying with artificial lighting. Or just make sure they are exposed to natural light at all times and wait until after the spring equinox.

Re: 20-year milestone coming soon

coturnix — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:46:07 -0000

Definitely The unedited voice of a person: http://scripting.com/2007/0...

Re: Blogging in an expert society

coturnix — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:24:55 -0000

But, when I say the word "bloggers", I think "experts". It is the experts who blog who are the most valuable addition to the modern media world. Economics news - go to economist blogger, exoplanet news - go to astronomer's blog, etc. It is the expert bloggers who are bloggers in my world. The rest are Facebookers, diarists, etc, which is fine, but not who I think of when I hear the word "blogger".

Re: The Sweet Taste of Conservation | Scientist in vivo

coturnix — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:38:22 -0000

I worked on Japanese quail. Yup, we marinated the breast meat and fried them and ate them. One needs a lot of quail, though, for a decent meal. Bobwhites are meatier. But we still envied the next-door lab which studied oysters, crayfish and lobsters!

Re: What early software was influential?

coturnix — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:49:27 -0000

I still have CricketGraph 3.0 somewhere here. I did all the graphs during 10 years of grad school, for five scientific papers, numerous posters and slideshows for conferences, and two dissertations only using that and nothing else. Later versions got cumbersome and overcomplicated. Xcel is ugly and non-obvious. But CricketGraph 3.0is a thing of beauty - it does everything, easy, pretty, just lovely!

Re: mistersugar.com: This is a test

coturnix — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:10:20 -0000

Experiment worked!

Re: Share your large Twitter archive?

coturnix — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:56:45 -0000

And just like Anton, as much as having my public tweets analyzed would be kewl, the real usefulness for me personally would be to get all the DMs - that's where a lot of important information was stored but is now lost to me.

Re: Share your large Twitter archive?

coturnix — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:54:46 -0000

I will make mine public as soon as I get it. With more than 100,000 tweets it is a rich database. I'd like to see it analyzed in every way possible, from sentiment analysis, to time-of-day and day-of-week and seasonal frequency of tweeting and getting RTd, to whatever else people can think of.

Re: Come have a drink with Nieman Lab Monday

coturnix — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:44:30 -0000

You have to schedule it well in February, catch all the science journalists and bloggers who will be in Boston for the AAAS meeting.

Re: Why I am not a theistic evolutionist and why I do not ‘believe in’ evolution (part 1)

coturnix — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:36:31 -0000

If you want a precise definition, here it is in both words and graphics, at NCSE site:
http://ncse.com/creationism...

Re: Why I am not a theistic evolutionist and why I do not ‘believe in’ evolution (part 1)

coturnix — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:03:14 -0000

Technically, theistic evolution is the belief that God created the universe and installed the evolutionary rules, leaving life to evolve on its own following those rules. But yes, you are right 100% in your analysis.

Re: Remembering NASA’s Lost Astronauts

coturnix — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:41:14 -0000

Not sure who is "they", but I don't recall Russian cosmonauts working for NASA, the subject of this post. I know this blog has plenty about Russians... dig through the archives.

Re: Image as interest: How the Pepper Spray Cop could change the trajectory of Occupy Wall Street

coturnix — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:18:22 -0000

We had an interesting discussion about this on G+ (https://plus.google.com/u/0... ) and later on Twitter. It appears that the image on top of your post, the one by Nguyen, is more familiar to people who did not pay too much attention during the weekend, and mainly got it from a couple of MSM outlets either first thing on Friday, or later on Monday.

The other photo (your #4), the one that was spun into a meme (your images #2, 3 and 5) was taken by UC Davis psychology student Louise Macabitas who never gets the proper credit for it. That one became iconic to those of us who spent Friday and the weekend following this story with rapt attention online, on blogs and social media, watching the birth of the meme etc.

So, depending on one's media diet, one thinks of either the Nguyen photo or the Louise Macabitas photo as "iconic". I think that meme-making will turn, once some time passes, the Macabitas photo into the one remaining image that everyone remembers as iconic. I also think that this analyzis is spot-on as to why this will happen: http://blogs.scientificamer...

It is interesting to watch how these things change. Once upon a time, a photographer would take gazillions of photos, choose one from the contact copies, send it to be published in NYTimes, and it becomes iconic. Kind of a pre-publication peer review, or editorial pre-publication filtering.

But today, the same moment is captured by dozens of cameras from different angles. Hundreds of shots are instantly posted online. The "iconic" one becomes so spontaneously (or at least serendipitously), through a kind of post-publication filtering or peer-review. It has to have some qualities that most viewers find compelling, not just one artist and one editor who may or may not be right about it. But there is also a great element of chance and contingency - the image that goes up fast, or is chosen by an outlet with lots of readers at just the moment when everyone is tuning in, or is not protected by copyright so is easy for bloggers to disseminate, or is great for photoshopping jobs. But it still has to work on the emotional level if it is to succeed and become "iconic".

Re: Quick Thoughts on ScienceWriters

coturnix — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:32:19 -0000

I did not miss it and I am glad I didn't. It was a wonderful session and the format worked really well for the topic.

Re: Who’s Ready For Super 8?

coturnix — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:02:54 -0000

We just saw it. Loved it! I shall not reveal any more of the plot yet...

Re: The Old is the New New. So Paleoblog, Will You?

coturnix — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:49:13 -0000

Of course, I love the idea. But a) there are tons of history bloggers out there, b) paleontology bloggers call what they do "paleoblogging" and c) a lot of science bloggers dip into history, then submit their entries to the Shoulders Of Giants blog carnival.

Re: Horny Male Alligators Bellow With Their Back Spikes

coturnix — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:27:07 -0000

Interesting! I thought Elizabeth von Muggenthaler recorded infrasonic vocalizations from crocodiles a few years ago...anyone know if that got published?

Re: mistersugar.com: 41, and still telling my story

coturnix — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:18:40 -0000

Happy birthday!!!!!!!

Re: Denim and Tweed: Moths that pass in the night: Reproductive isolation due to pickiness, or just bad timing?

coturnix — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:19:08 -0000

Fascinating! It is possible that their pheromone blends change at different times of night (known to happen in bolas spiders who mimic blends of different species of moths at different times of night) so they exude the 'correct' smell at the appropriate time of night when they usually court and mate, while at other times it is the artificiality of the lab condition that made them accept mates without the ability to discern their population-specific pheromones.

Re: Denim and Tweed: #scio11 aftermath, and an idea for #scio12

coturnix — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:44:15 -0000

It's never too early. We are collecting ideas in the Feedback forms, and will probably set up the wiki very early in the year this time around....

Re: Reflections from #scio11: Saturday’s Open Science Track

coturnix — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:33:53 -0000

"The sessions that followed sequentially in this room fit together like a perfectly flowing conversation, as if each one responding to the former and anticipating the next. " - Yes, the program was built in hope that would happen in each room....and we also try to do it at the scale of years - one year's conversations are a starting point for next year's.

Re: Legend of the Killer Storks

coturnix — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:54:49 -0000

This post is already slated for the Open Laboratory 2011 next year, I presume ;-)

Re: The Fightin’ Ibis: Xenicibis and Evolution’s Arrow

coturnix — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:38:42 -0000

So, this post is already slated for the Open Lab 2011 next year? ;-)